Women Overcomers Changing Our World
By Cheryl Miller and Shannon Deer
Employers who hire overcomers often gain a remarkably resilient employee who can change their business for the better.
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By Cheryl Miller and Shannon Deer
Employers who hire overcomers often gain a remarkably resilient employee who can change their business for the better.
By Raedorah C. Stewart
Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed into the Heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our profession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
By Rosalba Bea Rios
Fully conscience of the suffering that lay ahead, Jesus chooses to spend his last evening alive surrounded by his beloved friends. He savors his roasted lamb.
By Randy Woodley
Shalom is communal, holistic and tangible. Shalom is not for the many, while a few suffer, nor is it for the few while many suffer but it must be available for everyone. In this way, shalom is everyone’s concern.
By Victor Andre Greene
As for me, I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause. He does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number … See, we have searched this out; it is true.
By Rev. Letiah Fraser
You were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil. Gen. 3:19B (CEB)
On this Ash Wednesday I would like to make a public confession.
By Drew Jackson
“Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Compiled by the CSA team
How are you observing Lent this year? We’re highlighting a number of Lenten devotionals that focus on seeking justice. We hope you’ll check out some of these and find one that connects with your heart.
By Christine Aroney-Sine
God’s bequest of play buffers us from the spiritual burnout so rampant in our faith communities.
My Lenten theme this year is Breaking Down Walls. When I chose this theme I was not just thinking of the controversy about the wall on the U.S/Mexican border.
By Benjamin Capps
For those of you who have already failed on your Lenten commitments, I want you to know, I’m with you.
By now it is probably evident, even to the most occasional of church attenders, that we have thoroughly entered into the long, somber, and glorious tunnel of Lent.
By Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon
What does it mean to have Persistent Hope in the midst of disappointment and despair? Throughout the 40 days of Lent, this is the theme I am wrestling with, praying through, and seeking to understand as we wait together and long for Easter morning.
By Lenora Rand
Ok, maybe not everything…
But, yeah, a lot of stuff is broken. An awful lot.
Big stuff. Little stuff. Little stuff that feels like big stuff.
By Sarah Withrow King
For many Christians, this is Holy Week, a week of the year that we set aside to consider the death and burial of Jesus Christ. We know that the tomb will be empty on Easter morning, but the people who walked with Jesus did not share our advantage of hindsight.
By Sarah Withrow King
What are we doing to animals? Specifically, what are we doing to farmed animals?
By Sarah Withrow King
Read Romans 8:18-25. How does Paul envision creation’s release from bondage in this passage? Where do humans and animals find a place in his vision?
By Sarah Withrow King
CSA’s Sarah Withrow King is running a series of devotionals during Lent, reflecting on what we believe about God’s creatures and how we might move toward living out those beliefs as members of the body of Christ.
By Sarah Withrow King
What do we learn about the place of animals in creation? What role are humans given in relation to animals in this passage?
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